| Forgotten Lands: First Colony gives you the power to | | | | gradually develops the story as you complete |
| build structures, create units, and harvest materials | | | | increasingly open-ended missions. You start with |
| you'll need to do both. To recruit workers, simply | | | | simple tasks such as building a farm, recruiting a |
| click on the town hall and choose which citizen you'll | | | | number of units, or upgrading a building. Later you get |
| need. Some of the starting units available include | | | | to do much more interesting things such as trade |
| general laborers, merchants, scholars and scouts, | | | | gems for new property and repair an ancient |
| each with his or her own unique abilities. Drag and | | | | seafaring vessel that's crashed on the shore. Bonus |
| drop your units onto buildings to set them to work. | | | | stages are unlocked at certain points, providing you |
| Scholars, for example, love to research and when | | | | with a little break from the main game. |
| they're placed around a building it will quickly earn | | | | The visuals, while perfectly suited to the game's |
| points that will allow an upgrade. Learning how to use | | | | atmosphere, sometimes come across as a bit grainy |
| the units effectively is one of the key factors in | | | | with slightly stiff animation. It's nothing that detracts |
| mastering Forgotten Lands: First Colony. | | | | from the game. |
| Food, gold and wood are the only resources you | | | | It's rare to see real time strategy make its way to |
| need concern yourself with in the game. Build farms | | | | the casual scene in such a perfect way. Forgotten |
| and place workers there to make sure your | | | | Lands: First Colony delivers everything that's great |
| population is fed. Create a lumber mill to harvest | | | | about the genre without sacrificing very much at all. |
| timber, and try distributing merchants across your | | | | And you won't have to sacrifice hours of your life |
| buildings to increase gold production. In order to | | | | just learning how to play. |
| create new buildings and upgrade them, you'll need | | | | Key Game Features: |
| plenty of gold and wood. | | | | * Upgrade buildings? |
| Divided into a series of scenarios, Forgotten Lands | | | | |